Monday, May 5th 2025 Daily Gosho plus Tuesday May 6th Daily Encouragement

Daily Gosho & Encouragement, both using the latest official translations, all quotes are either from Nichiren Daishonin or Ikeda Sensei unless otherwise stated...

Monday, May 5th, 2025
-- DAILY GOSHO --
"The more gold is heated in the flames, the brighter will be its colour; the more a sword is whetted, the sharper it will become. And the more one praises the blessings of the Lotus Sutra, the more one's own blessings will increase."

(The Blessings of the Lotus Sutra 

- WND, Vol. 1, page 673)
Selection Source: 

Learning the Soka Spirit in the 

Writings of Nichiren Daishonin 

-- From a Lecture by Ikeda Sensei, 

Seikyo Newspaper, May 5th, 2025

Tuesday, May 6th, 2025
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---
"Today, l'd like to start by sharing some words from the diary of the renowned author Leo Tolstoy:

"'All great religions have been spread through the spoken word, and I believe that this is the only way it is possible to transmit true religious faith. Indeed, it is not just spread through speech, but, rather, through the medium of people's lives, a part of their very beings-that is, through transmitting the teachings orally, not through writings nor publications."*

Tolstoy firmly asserts that the true essence of great religions was spread by the spoken word, a part of our lives. It also perfectly describes how we of the Soka Gakkai share our faith with others.

Exert from Ikeda Sensei's speech to the Soka Gakkai Headquarters leaders meeting July 16th, 2003, shown as video footage at recent headquarters leaders meeting, April 12th, 2025, SGI Newsletter 11795, translation released May 2nd, 2025.

* Translated from Japanese. Paul Biryukov, Dai Torusutoi (The Great Tolstoy), translated by Hisaichiro Hara, Vol. 3 (Tokyo: Keito Shobo, 1969), p. 175.

  

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
KOGANE WA YAKEBA IYOIYO IRO MASARI TSURUGI WA TOGEBA IYOIYO TOKU NARU HOKEKYO NO KUDOKU WA HOMUREBA IYOIYO KUDOKU MASARU

New Gosho Zenshu page 1713
Gosho Zenshu page 1241

And the Japanese kanji for 

Tsukizuki Hibini 

on Seikyo Shinbun's web-site
https://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/

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